--- Neil Harris usenet@tonal.clara.co.uk wrote:
Link all the random obscenities to a single "obscenity" article, which gives the whole subject a thorough treatment... and that includes etymology, history and usage of the commonest / most vulgar as in the [[Fuck]] article.
I don't think [[obscenity]] is the proper article title though, since it has a specific definition in law which does not include profanities. The general overview should be at [[profanity]], which is where it is already. Nevertheless, I think important words like "fuck" and "nigger" deserve their own encyclopedic treatment, especially since other encyclopedias shy away from them.
Note that "Wikipedia is not a dictionary" does not mean that we can't have encyclopedia articles about certain words.
Axel
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